Conclusion

Sales strategy is the intellectual sword of your sales campaign, thus making the Direct strategy like a bronze sword. It is better than no strategy, but even with a bronze sword, you are using seventh century BC technology. Better is not the iron sword of the eighth century BC, but rather its technologically advanced offspring—the stronger, sharper, and more resilient steel sword that is the subject of our next chapter, the Indirect strategy.

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